Making skilling part of education system a challenging task
Need to strengthen skilling ecosystem with a regulator, more private participation, and by integrating it with school and higher education
— Yogima Sharma
Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has laid the ground for skilling in India. A key challenge going forward will be the integration of skilling with the education system and incentivising private players to take the process to the next level, experts say.
“While a ground has been laid for skills training, going forward we need greater participation of private players, a robust regulator in place to regulate the entire skilling ecosystem, and greater incentives for employers to take skilling to the next level,” Sunita Sanghi, senior advisor at the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship (MSDE), told ET.
According to Sanghi, the government has tied up with American tech giant IBM and software sector lobby group Nasscom to develop new job roles that will help train the youth for new kind of work demand generated by industry. “Besides developing new roles, we will have to speed up the task of setting up a skills regulator to recognise and regulate all pillars of skilling,” she said.
The industry, however, feels that integration of skilling with education should be the government’s top priority. “Nowhere in the world skilling is Centre-based. We need major policy push to inculcate and make skilling an integral part of schools and higher education,”said Gayathri Vasudevan, CEO at LabourNet Services India. According to her, the government should move from subsidy-based model to incentivisation for private players and the youth to make skilling aspirational.
Modi had, in 2015, launched ‘Skill India Mission’ and said he wanted to make India the ‘skill capital’ of the world. The aim is to impart skills training to 400 million by 2022 through flagship schemes like ‘Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Prohatsan Yojana’ and ‘National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme’. The Union budget for 2018-19 has allocated Rs 3,400 crore for skilling India, up from Rs 2,356 crore in 2017-18. However, just 25 million have been imparted skills training so far under various government schemes.
Need to strengthen skilling ecosystem with a regulator, more private participation, and by integrating it with school and higher education
— Yogima Sharma
Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has laid the ground for skilling in India. A key challenge going forward will be the integration of skilling with the education system and incentivising private players to take the process to the next level, experts say.
“While a ground has been laid for skills training, going forward we need greater participation of private players, a robust regulator in place to regulate the entire skilling ecosystem, and greater incentives for employers to take skilling to the next level,” Sunita Sanghi, senior advisor at the ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship (MSDE), told ET.
According to Sanghi, the government has tied up with American tech giant IBM and software sector lobby group Nasscom to develop new job roles that will help train the youth for new kind of work demand generated by industry. “Besides developing new roles, we will have to speed up the task of setting up a skills regulator to recognise and regulate all pillars of skilling,” she said.
The industry, however, feels that integration of skilling with education should be the government’s top priority. “Nowhere in the world skilling is Centre-based. We need major policy push to inculcate and make skilling an integral part of schools and higher education,”said Gayathri Vasudevan, CEO at LabourNet Services India. According to her, the government should move from subsidy-based model to incentivisation for private players and the youth to make skilling aspirational.
Modi had, in 2015, launched ‘Skill India Mission’ and said he wanted to make India the ‘skill capital’ of the world. The aim is to impart skills training to 400 million by 2022 through flagship schemes like ‘Pradhan Mantri Rojgar Prohatsan Yojana’ and ‘National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme’. The Union budget for 2018-19 has allocated Rs 3,400 crore for skilling India, up from Rs 2,356 crore in 2017-18. However, just 25 million have been imparted skills training so far under various government schemes.
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